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SPECIES Nycteris grandis
Author: | Peters, 1865. | Citation: | Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865: 358. | Common Name: | Large Slit-faced Bat | Type Locality: | "Guinea". | Distribution: | Senegal to Dem. Rep. Congo, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Mozambique; Zanzibar and Pemba. | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | hispida species group. Reviewed by Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1993b). N. marica is sometimes recognized as a distinct savanna subspecies, but this does not seem justified based on morphology; see Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1993b). See Hickey and Dunlop (2000). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
baikii Gray, 1866 marica Kershaw, 1923 proxima Lönnberg and Gyldenstolpe, 1925
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